Russia trying to re-extend its military presence...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/russia-bolsters-military-presence-former-soviet-states...but it will never fully recover its former Soviet size...
...and lets see how far back this renovation project gets pushed with the PetroRuble being beaten to a pulp.
And since it is their policy to cozy up to the Islaminal partner they see as being the sole surviving Musloid power once all the slaughtering is done (once the House of Saud falls, they'll all be killing each other to claim the spoils!)...no wonder they have been providing them with nuclear technology and material, weapons and the like.
But pardon me if I don't get jazzed up over a
naval exercise in a land-locked pond...and use of the word
fleet to describe two ships? I've seen bigger
fleets on local lakes!
Anyway...after all these years I still cannot figure out how Russia plans to survive with a Persian Caliphate dominating Central Asia and the Middle East? I guess they figure to be sweethearts-4-ever!
Stupid mongrels!
More evidence not all is sunshine and roses in Russia...
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/russia/articles/20141013.aspx...maybe more pics of a shirtless Vlad strutting around will fix things?
Anyway, and I find this little telling bit of news to be interesting...
"There have been some interesting encounters between these volunteers and highly trained Russian troops.. During one of the incidents highly trained Omega (spetsnaz) commandos who were hiding, along with some local rebels, behind their BTR armored vehicles as they had been trained to do. But then the Ukrainian volunteers simply rushed furiously at the enemy and succeeded in capturing the rebels. The rebels, including some regular Russian soldiers, were confused about what these Ukrainians were doing and before they could open fire they were surrounded and captured, with a few of them wounded. This was one of the first battles involving the 1st Reserve Battalion."
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htworld/articles/20141016.aspxHeh, Russia committing their best and most experienced, and their Spetsnaz, and get handled like this? Wow. And they are having a hard time telling widows and orphans where/why their father is dead? Yeah, that's a shame. Just think, if we can get better anti-armor weapons to these guys, they'd have another Afghanistan on their hands, and maybe then they wouldn't be so upitty and power/territory mad!
H/T -
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/back-from-the-dead-the-return-of-the-evil-empire-t14745.html